Style package for directly including color emojis in latex documents
Version 1.0
All files subject to the lppl 1.3c license.
Copyright Alec Jacobson, 2018.
Images in the emoji_images/ directory are generated using https://github.com/doraTeX/coloremoji/blob/master/extract_emoji.rb on a machine with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Color_Emoji font installed.
Installation
mkdir -p ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/local
cd ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/local
git clone git@github.com:alecjacobson/coloremoji.sty.git
texhash coloremoji.sty
The following LaTeX code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{coloremoji}
\begin{document}
Hello, 🌎.
\end{document}
produces something like:
You can even use emojis in math. The following LaTeX code:
\[
🐊^{🐊^{🐊}} = ∫_{🎃} 🙊 \ d🍀
\]
produces something like:
This style sheet creates a PDF where each emoji is actually an embedded image rather than a character using the Apple Color Emoji typeface. This means you won't be able to correctly copy and paste emjois from the resulting .pdf files.
The encoding of the .tex must support emoji's, that is unicode characters. So switch your encoding to something like UTF-8.